‘The Creativity Cure’ authors visit library Tuesday

Drs. Carrie and Alton Barron, a psychiatrist and hand surgeon, respectively, authors of the recently released “The Creativity Cure,” will appear at New Canaan Library on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 3:30, in the Adrian Lamb room, as part of the Authors on Stage series. The event is co-sponsored by Elm Street Books.

To facilitate attendees, the children’s area will be showing a G-rated movie suitable for children in grades one and up. Children who are comfortable being independent of their parents/caregivers for the duration of the hour-long talk are invited to attend the movie.

Drawing upon the latest psychological research, 40 years of medical practice experience and personal experience, the Barrons present in their book “an innovative and highly feasible five-part plan to banish depression and anxiety by exploring one’s creative potential,” according to a release.

Carrie Barron is a board-certified psychiatrist/psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons who also has a private practice in New York City. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, won several academic awards and presented original works on creativity and psychoanalysis at national meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Alton Barron, M.D., is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and is the president of the New York Society for Surgery of the Hand. He has been the surgeon for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera for more than a decade, and is a consultant for CBS and has appeared on the CBS “Early Show.” He has also written for The New York Times, was listed in The New York Times Magazine as one of the 2009 Super Docs, and has published extensively in multiple peer-reviewed journals.